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Featuring contributed chapters by experts in the discipline, Career
Counseling: A Holistic View of Lifespan and Special Populations is
designed to help readers competently and effectively provide career
counseling to diverse populations at all stages of life. The book
begins by presenting foundational concepts for career counselors,
including an overview of the historical context of the career
counseling profession, models, and theories, as well as critical
information on ethical and legal issues related to career
development and employment. The text offers research-based
techniques and interventions for working with children,
adolescents, adults, and older adults. Additional chapters explore
career counseling approaches for multicultural groups, LGBT
clients, individuals with disabilities, veterans, ex-offenders, and
more. Closing chapters address group career counseling; intakes,
assessments, and measurements; and advocating and marketing to
employers and human resources. Throughout, the book features
examples of events that affect the workplace and workforce within
the current climate, including socio-economic trends and diverse
barriers that are easily overlooked, but are critical to consider
in contemporary practice. Career Counseling is an ideal core
textbook for undergraduate and graduate-level courses in career,
clinical rehabilitation, and general counseling, as well as human
resources.
In The Weary Leader's Guide to Burnout, Sean Nemecek takes
Christian leaders on a journey from burnout through recovery and on
to spiritual transformation. By understanding the causes and
symptoms of their burnout, these leaders will be ready to take
practical, actionable steps toward wholeness. Then, if they choose,
they will be poised to do the inner work of spiritual
transformation by the power and guidance of the Holy Spirit. In the
end, these leaders will emerge from burnout more confident in
Christ, more connected with others, and with greater purpose,
courage, and grace in their leadership. This book integrates
biblical interpretation, theology, psychology, and contemplative
spirituality into a holistic approach to recovery. It is filled
with relatable stories of church leaders who have walked this path
and includes discussion questions for personal contemplation or
group discussion. The Weary Leader's Guide to Burnout will help
pastors and Christian leaders develop an integrated approach to
life, work, and ministry through healing and spiritual
transformation.
Today pastors and church leaders have an unparalleled opportunity
to shape a biblical vision for Kingdom giving. Based on the
foundational premise that stewardship is the management of time,
talents, and treasure, authors Stan Toler and Elmer Towns set forth
a vision for pastors and church leaders to shape the thinking in
the pews. Developing a Giving Church provides guidance for shaping
a giving environment, suggestions for developing committed steward
leaders, and counsel on biblical strategies. This vital stewardship
resource merges insightful principles with proven methods for
creating a climate for giving through stewardship education.
Resiliency Centered Counseling: A Liberating Approach for Change
and Wellbeing provides readers with a therapeutic approach that is
resilience-focused, strength-centered, and grounded in the
cutting-edge principles of postmodernism, humanism, cybernetics,
and neurobiology. The text recognizes that people are far more than
the challenges they face and that counseling is a collaborative
invitation to better oneself. The book reimagines how clinicians
can work efficiently and pragmatically in assisting others while
also becoming the heroes of their own lives. With an emphasis on
evidence-informed practice, each chapter seeks to engage the reader
in a new way of understanding the clinical encounter. Individual
chapters explore the counselor as healer, interdependency, trauma,
feminism, resilient counseling relationships, wonderment, building
resilient communities, and more. Resiliency Centered Counseling
helps those in the helping professions form authentic counseling
relationships and join their clientele in seeking liberation from
the weight of depression, anxiety, trauma, and fear. The book is an
exemplary guide for courses in counseling theories, interventions,
and psychotherapy at the master's and doctoral level.
Featuring chapters written by interdisciplinary scholars,
Counseling and Teaching Across the Life Span: A Humanistic
Perspective provides readers with a balanced presentation of
historical, scientific, and psychosocial information on human
development. The text presents cutting-edge material on human
development across the life span from preconception to the end of
life and beyond. It explores the related aspects of biological,
cognitive, emotional, spiritual, and environmental segments that
contribute to the making of a person. The text discusses the
influence of heredity, genetics, attachment, nutrition,
neuroscience, spectrum disorders, addictions, cultural and ethnic
differences, gender, sexual orientation, and more in each stage of
life. Counseling and Teaching across the Life Span is an ideal
textbook for courses and programs in education, counseling,
counselor education, and other social sciences that require robust
knowledge and study of human development across the life span.
In the wake of disaster emergency responders are first on the scene
and last to leave. They put concern for the lives of others over
concern for their own lives, and work tirelessly to recover the
bodies of the missing. Their heroic actions save lives, provide
comfort to and care for the wounded and inspire onlookers, but at
what cost to themselves? We now know that rescue workers who are
exposed to mutilated bodies, mass destruction, multiple casualties,
and life-threatening situations may become the hidden victims of
disaster. The traumatic consequences of exposure can profoundly
impact emergency responders, radiate to their families, and
permeate the emergency organization. This much-needed new book,
based on the authors' original research and clinical experience,
describes the consequences of trauma exposure on police officers,
fire fighters, and paramedics. Weaving data collected in
large-scale quantitative studies with the personal stories of
responders shared in qualitative interviews, this much-needed
account explores the personal, organizational, and societal factors
that can ameliorate or exacerbate traumatic response. Stress
theory, organizational theory, crisis theory, and trauma theory
provide a framework for understanding trauma responses and guiding
intervention strategies. Using an ecological perspective, the
authors explore interventions spanning prevention, disaster
response, and follow-up, on individual, family, group,
organizational, and community levels. They provide specific
suggestions for planning intervention programs, developing trauma
response teams, training emergency service responders and mental
health professionals, and evaluating the effectiveness of services
provided. Disaster, whether large-scale or small, underscores our
ongoing vulnerability and the crucial need for response plans that
address the health and well being of those who confront disaster on
a daily basis. In the Line of Fire speaks directly to these
emergency response workers as well as to the mental health
professionals who provide them with services, the administrators
who support their efforts, and the family members who wonder if
their loved one will return home safely from work tonight.
Indigenous Relapse Prevention: Sustaining Recovery in Native
American Communities combines the resilient strengths of Indigenous
cultural beliefs and practices with empirically supported methods
to help readers better understand and address relapse processes.
The text recognizes that mainstream relapse prevention programs
must be adapted to better serve American Indian and Alaska Native
clients. It leverages the Indigenist Relapse Prevention Model to
offer a strengths-based, culturally grounded treatment model that
assists individuals in overcoming threats to recovery. The model
addresses Indigenous-specific issues related to substance use and
recovery that are frequently not addressed in other programs, such
as triggers related to racism, lateral violence, and
intergenerational trauma. The program reflects an Indigenous
worldview, emphasizes the role of spirituality in wellness, and is
intended to restore balance and harmony in the lives of clients
through an appreciation of the sacredness of Creation and self.
Indigenous Relapse Prevention is part of the Cognella Series on
Advances in Culture, Race, and Ethnicity. The series, co-sponsored
by Division 45 of the American Psychological Association, addresses
critical and emerging issues within culture, race, and ethnic
studies, as well as specific topics among key ethnocultural groups.
Introduction to School Counseling: Becoming a Leader, Advocate, and
Change Agent introduces readers to the evolution of the role and
function of the school counselor and their emergence as leaders,
advocates, and collaborators in the provision of quality and
equitable education for all students. The primary goal of the text
is to provide readers with not only information but inspiration in
service of their developing professional identity as a school
counselor. Each chapter opens with a reflection from a school
counselor, which provides readers with valuable insight into the
lived experience of the school counselor. The chapters also employ
case illustrations and guided exercises to foster greater
understanding of the profession. Dedicated chapters explore the
unique dynamic and breadth of the role of the school counselor, how
to advocate for systemic change within school environments, ethical
standards and behavior, and multi-tiered systems of support.
Readers learn how to assist those with educational challenges,
address threats to socioemotional development, connect with parents
and caregivers, and better understand the nuances and requirements
for serving in elementary, middle, and high school environments.
Introduction to School Counseling is an inspiring and informative
resource for foundational courses in school counseling.
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